Porch furniture.



J. E. THOMPSON.

PORCHFURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5.1913.

Patented 00. 19, 1915.

wi lmeooao JAMES E. THOMPSON, OF TROY, ALABAMA.

PORCH FURNITURE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 19, 1915.

Application filed May 5, 1913. Serial No. 765,595.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Troy, county of Pike, State of Alabama, have invented certain-new and useful Improvements in Porch Furniture, of which the following is a full and clear specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention'is to provide a piece of porch'furniture which may be used as a chair or a swing and is convertible into a stationary rods being connected together at their upper ends and adapted to be connected to the suspending chain e. These rods diverge downwardly, passing through holes in thearm rests c in alinement with the bolts 70 and are rigidly secured in position at their lower ends by the said bolts 7c. The use of this form of hanger makes a rigid end frame for the seat, since the arm rest frame serves to brace and support the hanger rods 03 about midway their length.

The back of the seat consists of two sections 7 adapted to rest one upon the other edge-wisely and each being provided with a forwardly projecting arm 9 at each end, at the meeting edges of thetwo sections f. The arms 9 at each end of the structure are overlapped and pivoted, by means of a bolt in, to the middle upright of the arm rest frame. By constructing the back in this manner it will be observed that the two sections'f may be used together, one edgewisely be swung over to the opposite edge of the seat frame and thus form a baby crib.

It will be observed that a feature of importance lies in attaching the lower ends of the diverging suspension rods rigidly to the seatrframe and having the rods pass through holes in the arm boards, the rods where they pass through the holes having bracing contact with the arm boards. In this way the arm frame is rigidly braced against the suspension rods without the use of bolts or other fastening devices, the tension on the suspension rods due to theweight of the furniture and the occupants serving to hold the rods sufficiently rigid to bring about a mutual bracing action between the rods and the arm frame.

I claim c In combination, a seat frame, a vertically arranged arm frame at each end thereof comprising upright members and an arm rest board extending across the tops of said upright members, each board being provided with a pair of separated holes, a back rest pivoted at its opposite ends to the intermediate uprights of the arm frames, said arm frames being connected together only by the seat frame and the back rest, whereby the back rest may be adjusted to rest upon either longitudinal edge of the seat frame, suspension means at each end of the seat frame comprising a pair of rods connected together at their upper ends by a loop and diverging downwardly from said loop, these downwardly diverging parts passing through said holes in the arm rest boards, and means securing the inner faces of the lower ex tremities of the rods to the lower ends of the outer uprights of the arm frames at points approximately coincident with their connection to the seat frame.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES E. THOMPSON. Witnesses:

O. D. DAVIS, V CHARLEs LOWELL HOWARD.

: copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. O." 

